Word: lightweights
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...It’s got its up and downs,” senior lightweight Chip Schellhorn added. “One of the best things is that we can bet our shirts. If we were NCAA, we couldn’t do that, and I think that’s one of the biggest traditions of racing...
...Harvard lightweight freshman four that won a national title in 2003 would likely never have existed under the NCAA label: there’s no specific freshman event under NCAA rules, and lightweight rowing would likely be excluded from the NCAA...
Women’s lightweight programs still compete at the IRA national championships in Camden, while their heavyweight counterparts travel to a site that changes annually. Either lightweight rowing would disappear along with the IRA, or the lightweights would retain IRA status as the men’s heavyweights were moved to the NCAA label...
...would welcome an exploration of men’s rowing becoming an NCAA sport if I could be assured…[t]hat for every men’s heavyweight event, there would be an equivalent men’s lightweight event,” Yale lightweight coach Andy Card wrote in an email. “[And] that the weigh-in requirements and rules for men’s lightweight rowing currently in effect in the EARC be adopted exactly without modification into an NCAA format...
...risk, then, is the loss of several storied aspects of collegiate rowing: the venerated tradition of shirt exchange, small boats racing, and lightweight rowing—a division concentrated in the East Coast since its inception...